neighbourhood in Eindhoven

Woenselse Heide

5,255 residents · postal code 5628 · Part of Aanschot, Eindhoven

Bottom 26% in the Netherlands

Good for children, with a safety question

With a 9.5 for families, Woenselse Heide scores excellently on one point: the primary school is five hundred metres away and forty per cent of the households have children. Anyone looking at Eindhoven with young children gets something out of that, because the other figures point the other way.

Safety gets no further than a 3.4, and that cannot be attributed to one type of offence: violence, burglary, theft and vandalism are all four above the national level, acts of vandalism even at almost double it.

Wealth stays stuck at 4.2. The property value is below the Dutch middle, more households with a low income live there than usual and social assistance occurs several times more often than nationally — although no more stands empty than elsewhere.

no. 9,718 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 58 of 103 in Eindhoven

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Is Woenselse Heide a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Woenselse Heide comes out at 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

31.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.5 per 1,000

Property crime

11.4 per 1,000

Vandalism

4.0 per 1,000

In 2025, 207 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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The figures ⌄

Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.6 km

GP practice

1.2 km

Train station

4.2 km

Restaurant

0.6 km

Hospital

2.3 km

Café

1.9 km

Library

5.1 km

Motorway ramp

2.8 km

Tick = Dutch median

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Wealth & income

What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.

Property value

€ 380,000

Welfare recipients

32.4 per 1,000

High incomes

16%

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

45%

Social housing

50%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

81%

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

6,477 inw/km²

Noise level

53 dB

Green surroundings

43%

Trees nearby

14%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

2,457

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 µg/m³

Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.

Tick = Dutch median

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The figures ⌄

Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.5 km

Households with children

41%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.7 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Woenselse Heide looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6527%
NL median 28%
65+19%
NL median 22%

Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.

Average household size
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,477 — far more densely populated than average
NL median 2,364

Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.

Frequently asked questions

Is Woenselse Heide a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Woenselse Heide comes out at 31 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Woenselse Heide?

In Woenselse Heide the police recorded 207 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (31 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.

How is the grade for Woenselse Heide calculated?

Woenselse Heide scores 4.4 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Woenselse Heide lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.